Let's be real for a moment. None of this would increase a downloader's chance of purchasing something. Downloaders download for convenience and cost, not because of some ambient disgruntledness with the quality, DRM or the fact that so many movies are remakes.

DRM is like a debt collection department - a necessary evil of any corporation to protect their income stream.

Let's be reasonable for a moment...

The US Government has thousands of people working on thousands of project at any given time.

Anyone can walk up and say "why bother working on this one over here when this completely unrelated one over here managed by completely different people with completely different responsibilities could be worked on instead?"

Why bother issuing parking fines when the economy is on the brink of destruction? Gee, maybe because they've pretty much got nothing whatsoever to do with each other?

Come on.

IIANM, the savings are from less energy to power air conditioners in homes.

Painting pavements would have no benefit unless we turned off all of the air conditioners we have installed next to pavements of which basically there are none.

What's sad is that you took the time to work that out.

What's even sadder is that I took the time to verify it.

And you're right. It's about 70 pages per person.